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Sustainable Development and Sustainable Growth

Sustainable Growth and Development (SGD)

Beacon Economics partners with policymakers, communities, businesses, and elected officials to data-drive discourse and decision-making processes around sustainability, economic growth, and equity.

Beacon Economics SGD Practice Area is:

INTER-DISCIPLINARY

Beacon believes traditional datasets establish the essential groundwork but don’t tell the whole story.

ACTION-ORIENTED

Beacon provides actionable next steps and recommendations, informed by quantitative and qualitative analysis.

LOCALIZED

Beacon has long-established state and regional expertise and understands the unique inputs that shape local policymaking.

Sample Projects and Clients:

The Economic Benefits of a Professional Early Care and Education Workforce in Los Angeles County | UNITE-LA

Economic Forecasting and Resiliency Analysis | Tahoe Prosperity Center

Economic Development and Land Use Report | Los Angeles Controller’s Office

Land Use Element & Workforce Housing Analysis | Downtown Long Beach Alliance

Film & Digital Media Industry Analysis | County of Los Angeles, CEO Office

Green Innovation Index | Next 10

How does Beacon Economics approach the sustainability space?

ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Beacon identifies core local drivers of economic growth through in-depth industry analysis and simultaneously designs workforce development strategies to ensure that growth is inclusive.

SUSTAINABLE PLANNING

Leveraging its strengths in land use and real estate, Beacon collaborates with policymakers and communities to ground local and regional planning efforts in best-in-class sustainability practices and a granular understanding of the data that underpins California’s historical and current progress toward its sustainability and climate change goals.

GREEN, CLEAN, AND CIRCULAR ECONOMIES

Beacon works with private sector industry actors and businesses to assess and unlock opportunities born of new legislation, market-driven dynamics, and private firms’ reassessing their own sense of long-run risk.

SGD Services

Industry Analysis

Labor Market Analysis
and Workforce Development Strategy

Economic Development
Strategy Support

Green and Clean
Economy Analysis

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Economic and Revenue
Forecasting

Beacon delivers accurate, rigorously constructed outlooks that inform private and public sector planning, policy, investment, and growth.

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ECONOMIC, FISCAL, AND SOCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS

Beacon specializes in successfully communicating the full economic, fiscal, and social impacts of events, institutions, projects, and investments.

Public Policy
Analysis

Beacon analyzes and assesses the economic, fiscal, and other impacts that public policies have on a community or population…

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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT SERVICES

Beacon has the expertise and experience to guide local leaders through the ARPA process, ensuring communities fully and effectively leverage their funding.

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For information about any of the Beacon Economics practice areas, please contact:

Business Development Manager Daniel Fowler at  424-666-2165 or [email protected]

Contact Daniel Fowler